Changelog

V2.0.2 - Playtest Build: The AI Commanders Wake Up

• NOW LIVE - the build running tonight's public playtest. Second same-day patch: the morning's V2.0.1 fixed the economy; this one fixes the war. Four fix PRs bundled and verified on the live box before the event.
• FIX - The AI commanders found their armies again. For days both AI commanders stood in base founding zero attack teams. Root cause: the team-founding dispatcher could pick a 'zombie' headless client (one whose owner had silently dropped to nobody), and every founding order sent to it vanished without an error. The picker now skips dead HCs - verified live: both commanders founding 16-17 teams each and capturing towns within minutes of server start.
• FIX - FPV drones are back on, without the mid-air surprise. The commander's FPV drone spawned in the air the moment it was bought due to a handoff race between purchase and pilot assignment. Race fixed, feature re-enabled.
• FIX - Vehicle selling is server-authoritative now. A client-side path let a creative seller get paid without the server agreeing the vehicle was actually gone. The server now owns the whole transaction - the exploit is closed.
• FIX - Five AI-commander correctness repairs from the live-log bughunt: wrong-side checks, stale references and ordering bugs found by reading the actual server logs from recent sessions rather than the code alone.
• FIX - QRF stacking capped. Quick-reaction forces could combo-stack beyond what a town fight was ever meant to see; there's a cap now.
• PERF - Air-environment scan dedup rewritten from quadratic to linear, plus a hoisted per-frame scan in the W13 path - less CPU spent on bookkeeping, more on the war.
• STAGED - The 'second guy in my group at spawn' fix is in, behind a flag (default off) for after-playtest arming: your initial spawn's AI buddy will disband properly instead of shadowing you.
• Fixes ride tonight's playtest at 18:00 on the test server - see the Servers page, and drop your findings in Discord.